Custom Color Early '70's Telecaster.

1972 Fender Telecaster.

This forty year old 'Custom Color' Telecaster weighs just 7.20 lbs. and has a comfortable nut width of just under 1 5/8 inches and a scale length of 25 1/2 inches. Solid alder body and one-piece maple neck with a medium  profile. Twenty-two jumbo frets and inlaid black dot position markers. Individual Fender "F" tuners with octagonal metal buttons. Headstock decal with "Fender" logo in black with gold trim, "Telecaster" in black beside it, and two patent numbers ("2,573,254" and "3,143,028") beneath "Fender." Two "butterfly" string trees. Four-bolt neck plate with large Fender "F" logo and serial number ("376653") between the top two screws. One plain metal-cover pickup (at neck) with an absolutely amazing output of 6.90k and one black 'staggered-polepiece' pickup (angled in bridgeplate) with a really hot output of 6.87k. Three-layer (white/black/white) plastic pickguard with eight screws. Two controls (one volume, one tone) plus three-way selector switch (with black plastic "Top-Hat" tip) all on metal plate adjoining pickguard. Chrome knobs with flat tops and knurled sides. Fender combined bridge/tailpiece with three smooth saddles and original chrome "ashtray" bridge cover. The neck is stamped on the end in red "303-0325" and the bottom edge of neck has the circular Fender 'quality control' stamp and "Webright" in black. The neck cavity has a "5" in red and the potentiometers are stamped "304 7248" (Stackpole, December 1972). The guitar has been expertly re-fretted with slightly larger gauge fret-wire. Complete with the original 'ashtray' bridge cover. Housed in its original Fender black hardshell case with the "tail" on the Fender logo and with red plush lining (9.00).